The macro economy can put a lot of pressure on organizations to reduce costs, typically with the central SRE and platform engineering teams coming under scrutiny. One common workaround we’ve seen countless teams make is compromising their observability by ingesting fewer metrics in the name of cost savings. But for centralized SRE/observability teams, the response to macro conditions should not be monitor less, but rather monitor smarter.

Every organization requires data analysis and monitoring solutions to gain insights into their data. Grafana and Kibana are two of the most popular open-source dashboards for data analysis, visualization, and alerting.

Grafana 10.1 is here! The latest Grafana release introduces new features and improvements that help deepen your observability insights in Grafana, including an improved flame graph, a new geomap network layer, simplified alerting workflows, and more. Grafana 10.1: Download now! For an overview of all the features in this release, check out our What’s New documentation. And to learn the details about all the Grafana 10.1 updates, read our changelog for more information.

Grafana k6 v0.46.0 is here! The new release features the ability to configure TLS, new usage reports and PDF reports in Grafana Cloud, and tons of improvements for Grafana k6 OSS and Grafana Cloud k6. Here’s an overview of Grafana k6 v0.46.0, as well as some other important updates from the k6 team and community.

Grafana Loki is an open source logs database built on object storage services in the cloud. These services are an essential component in enabling Loki to scale to tremendous levels. However, like all SaaS products, object storage services have their limits — and we started to crash into those limits in Grafana Cloud Logs, our SaaS offering of Grafana Loki.